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Projects To Watch Out For: Ladybird Browser (ladybird.org)
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Finally, another web engine is being developed to compete with Chromium and Firefox (Gecko), and they're also working on a browser that will use it.

Here's the maintainer talking about the current state of the project, and a demo of the current functionality

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[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah not a good licence at all for an independent browser. Idk if Servo MPL is a good license either. Do you know of any web browser that is GPL?

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 7 points 3 weeks ago

WebKit/Blink are mostly LGPL.

[–] astro_ray@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

Definitely not what you want, but Gnome web (Epiphany) is GPLv3 according to flathub.

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

Its better than a BSD style license which is what I was mainly critiquing